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5.0 out of 5 stars
At last! Function as well as information, June 19, 2002
This review is from: Mac OS X Pocket Reference: A User's Guide to Mac OS X (Paperback)
O'Reilly's new "Mac OS X Pocket Reference" hits a home run right out of the stadium!
Yes, Missing Manuals are good. As are Little Books, Bibles and Inside books. However few of those tomes fit your pocket, purse or brief case as beautifully as this little gem does! It's an essential quick-reference on OS X that all new users will use at least several times on the very first day it arrives.
Not only does it contain all the really essential commands and keys, it includes basic UNIX command info, printer, modem configurations, and a host of other important help one may need while at the desk or on the road. Add a user, remove a user, tune the dock, correct OS preferences, log in, log out, change passwords, and do just about anything the unfriendly new OS requires you to do.
I actually like it better than the frustrating online guide help. It is well organized, has a good table of contents and index, and is designed with a simple, easy to understand format.
But it's not just about help. Just thumbing through it you'll pick up tips that you hadn't thought of before. (Like building and using the powerful locate database!) It's a great little book, fits nicely in the brief case for travel and gives you the support you need when you need it.
Yes, I bought David Pogue's "Missing OS X Manual" for the kids and at home. I bought Robin William's wonderful "Little OS X Book" to send off to college with my son. But this one . . . it's in MY brief case all the time.
Although the Designer's Bookshelf concentrates on books in the visual communications fields, the Max OS X Pocket Reference caught all our Mac User's fancy and won itself a place in the Design-Bookshelf.com Editor's Choice Circle for July 2002.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
You want this in your pocket, June 5, 2002
This review is from: Mac OS X Pocket Reference: A User's Guide to Mac OS X (Paperback)
This book is invaluable - it's small, it's concise, it has what you want to know, and it's small enough to pack in your pocket. The main reason it deserves the five stars in full is because it delivers on all the Mac OS X content with depth that fits a pocket-book, plus some UNIX code. In essence, what Chuck Toporek has done is to create an all-purpose Mac OS X book small enough to carry with you. Mucho content in a mini size - that's why I recommend this book.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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A REASONABLE AND DEPENDABLE HANDBOOK, January 19, 2003
This reasonably edited pocket guide was designed for two groups of 'Mac' learners: those who have limited time to invest on a more detailed textbook and those who simply need a handy mini reference.
Either way, this edition of "Mac OS X Pocket Guide" fulfills its obligations. The book is very straightforward. No unnecessary detail will be found in it. In fact, this book is so compact and concise that an average reader can finish reading its entire chapters in less than three hours with full comprehension. Fast readers will accomplish that much earlier.
This is the book to invest on, if your need includes a quick and reliable memory refresher. In a very short time, it will familiarize its reader with all the important issues about the new Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar software.
It is a reasonable and dependable handbook which every 'Mac' stalwart should benefit from.
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